Directors, critics, and the public all have certain ideas about whether or not certain music should be used in a film. Every once in a while a selection is so ready made it’s viewed as too easy or cheap or somehow unoriginal, even though it would be a perfect fit and would enhance the viewing experience for most viewers. Such is the possible problem here. So what do you think? Should he use it? Will he use it? Might he compromise and use it during the credits?
I don’t know if this is an important question or not but I’ll bet it’s one that will have to have crossed his mind.
I personally think he should use it, but believe it’s 50-50 that he’ll either use it in the credits, or not at all.
For those who may not be familiar with the song, here are the psychedelic era lyrics which are set to a simple, throbbing tune.
[i]White Rabbit
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you’re going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small
When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she’ll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen’s “off with her head!”
Remember what the dormouse said:
“Feed your head
Feed your head
Feed your head”
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If he does, then he does “Lewis Carroll” a disservice considering that song is about that specific era and surviving the coming of age experience of that time; which has nothing to do with Lewis Carroll’s Alice at all really.
3 and 4 lines into the song, you should be well aware that this song is written entirely for this, and if not, then you need to learn the time period a bit more of this song and why such lines like that would be written; and then you’ll see the song has nothing to relate to with Carroll’s Alice.
As with every break between generations, there’s a love/rebel dichotomy. Mom loves you and wants to protect you–often to the point of being stifling. The child must develop it’s own identity while it benefits from the experience and protection of the parent.
Jefferson Airplane didn’t put words in Lewis Caroll’s mouth, but he and Disney and the rest freely put pills, mushrooms and all in Alice’s. JA just retold it with a bit of a bite of satire born of Parental hypocrisy.
And anyway, the last stanza in the song is the punchline. “Feed your head”. With what? Logic and proportion of course.
Burton would do himself proud to quote the dormouse.
Yeah…and the book is awesome!
Considering what type of dilution the first one had, I’m more interested in a closer take to the book than far-fetched, “as it impressed me personally, here let me show you how it seemed to me as a drug reference story”.